Please do not indent if selection is in-line
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Whenever anything is selected on a line, pressing the TAB key will _always_ indent the line. This is annoying to me, especially when I want to replace in-line spaces by tabs.
Could you please disinguish between a selection that contains the start of the line, or starts in the white space before any character, and a simple selection of any text (or spaces, as in my case) after or starting from the first character and ending on the same line?
Whenever there is an End-Of-Line in the selection, it's fine with me if all lines are indented.
The normal TAB behavior can be restored by turning off TextFX Settings +Disable subclassing and advanced features. Several other features will disappear too which is fine if you aren't using them.
Yes, that's bugging me too.
Cool... I'm not alone in being totally irritated by the Tab key behavior. Also, I went to Shortcut mapper to change the behavior. It sorta worked. However, now I want to restore the original behavior and don't see a way to do so. For example, I mapped "E:Stick indent <blah> <blah>" (which used to map to TAB) to Ctrl-TAB. Now, I want to restore just the TAB behavior and find that Shortcut Mapper refuses to enable the OK button when no checkboxes are checked. Catch 22.
Thanks nobody :-) it is exactly what I was looking for.
instead or Ctrl-Tab, i set alt-capslock (no used for me)
I think you can open up your "shortcuts.xml" file (either in %APPDATA%/Notepad++ or wherever you installed Notepad++) in *regular Notepad* and delete these lines if that is the only command you changed:
<PluginCommands>
. . . . <PluginCommand moduleName="NPPTextFX.dll" internalID="84" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="9" />
</PluginCommands>
If there is more than one PluginCommand, only delete the one above, which is the mapping for ctrl-TAB to "E:Indent Text Sticky Left Margin".
The reason for using regular Notepad is that I'm not sure if Notepad++ will overwrite your change with its internal copy, restoring the unwanted behavior. --Joel
When I want to insert a (blank) line, and the text on the next line is already indented, but less than the previous line, the indentation of the previous line will be _added_ to the current indentation.
First of all, it makes no sense to make the _total_ indentation more than the indentation of the prevous line, if that would have to be used as the "continuing" indentation.
Next to that, why (more) indent a line that I _separate_ from the previous line by inserting a new or blank line? What benefit could I ever get from that???
Could you make this indentation somehow smarter, i.e. less persistent?
Another improvement would be to check if a line is already indented. This would solve the extra indentation problem...